Python and the space shuttle
18th June 2002
Dan Shafer: Space shuttle engineers use Python to streamline mission design.
"We achieve immediate functioning code so much faster in Python than in any other language that it’s staggering," says Friedrich. "Java and C++, for example, have much more baggage you have to understand just to get a functioning piece of software.
Python advocacy doesn’t get much better than this.
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